Box protector



Nov. 23,1926. 1,607,711

T. R. WALKER BOX PROTECTOR Filed July 16. 1925 gjwventoz 7 1 Tom K. mp

Patented Nov. 23, 1926 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TOM R. WALKER, OF ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNGR TO WALKER PATENTS COM-PANY, INC., OF ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, A CORFPORATION.

BOX PROTECTOR.

Application filed July 18, 1925.

This invention aims to provide asimple means whereby frail boxes may bereinforced to withstand the severe treatment which containers receive intransportation.

Another object of the invention is so to construct the reinforcementthat it may be detached from one container and used again. It is withinthe province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance theutility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains Withthe above and other objects in view which will appear as the descriptionproceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement ofparts and in the details of construction hereinafter described andclaimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment ofthe invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what isclaimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in perspective, a deviceconstructed in accordance with the invention, mounted on a box; Figure 2is a perspective of one of the corner pieces; Figure 3 is a perspectiveof one of the edge strips; Figure 4 is a section taken about on the lineli of Figure 1.

The device embodies three-sided corner pieces 1, which may be made ofmetal, each corner piece embodying plates 2 so located with respect toeach other that the member 1 will fit on the corner of a box 3, thecorner pieces having reduced arms 4 provided with inturned flanges 5which strengthen the arms. Edge strips 6, in the form of angle members,are supplied, and have inturned flanges 7 the arms 4 being receivedwithin the edge strips 6, and the flanges 7 and 5 being interengaged sothat the edge strips will not be detached accidently, the flange 7reinforcing the edge strips, and the edge stripsguarding the edges ofthe box 3 at the angles of the box. The edge strips 6 are long enough sothat they cannot slide endwise out of engagement with the arms 4.Binders 8 are supplied and are connected, by twisting or otherwise, withprojections 9 on the plates 2 of adjacent corner pieces 1. Theprojections 9 may be made in any desired way, but the drawings show themas hooks struck from the plates Serial No. 44,062.

2although this detail is not insisted upon. Strengthening plates 10 areprovided and rest against the sides of the box 3. The plates 10 are notfastened to the sides of the box. They are of such area, compared withthe area of the sides of the box, that they will have an appreciableeffect in reinforcing the sides of the box. Opposite edges of the plates10 are concaved, as at 11, and those edges have overhanging flanges 12,coextensivein length with the edges 11, the intermediate portions of thebinders 8 being detachably engaged with the flanges 12. The binders 8may be pieces of wire, and in any event, the device is so constructedthat it will not only protect the corners and edges of a box, but, aswell, be capable of ready removal and repeated use. Although a box hasbeen mentioned, it will be obvious that the article may be used on anysort of a container.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the removability of thebinder framing is an important and advantageous feature of theinvention, not only because it permits of the reuse of such binderframing, but also because it permits of the re-useof the material ofwhich the box or container is made. That is to say, as will be observedfrom Fig. 4 of the drawings the box 3 may be made up of a series ofpanels or plates A and B which are held in their assembled relation bymeans of the reinforcing binder framing previously described. Thepresent binder framing therefore not only provides and constitutes adetachable reinforcement for the container, but also holds the parts ofthe container in assembled form without the aid of nails, screws, orfastenings of any kind.

I claim 1. Box construction comprising loose panel pieces assembled toform a container, a skeleton binder framing including corner pieces andedge strips engaging and covering the corner and edge joints of thecontainer, said corner pieces and edge strips having telescopic rigidlyinterfitting parts, and means for holding said interfitting partsagainst separation only in the direction reverse to that in which theywere moved to interfit.

2. Box construction comprising loose panel pieces assembled to form acontainer,

a skeleton binder framing including corner pieces and edge strips forrespectively engaging and covering the corner and edge oints of thecontainer, said corner pieces and edge strips having telescopicallyrigidly interfitting parts and means independent oi said interlittingparts to hold and connect the corner pieces together.

3. Means for assembling and holding loose panels in box form comprisinga binder framing including corner members, arms projecting from saidcorner members, reinforcing and edge joint projecting m embers forreceiving said arms and holding the same against lateral and edgewisemovement to provide a self-sustaining framing,

and means for holding said arms and the members in assembled relation.

l. Means for assembling and holding loose panels in box form comprisinga binder fren'iing including corner members, arms projecting from saidcorner members, reinforcing and edge joint protecting members forreceiving said arms and holding the same against lateral and edgewisemoven'ient to provide a self-sustaining framing, and means forconnecting the corner pieces only.

In testin'iony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have heretoaflixed my signaturn.

TOM R. ALK IQIL

